{"title":"Exploring the Multifactorial Etiology of Functional Constipation in Children.","authors":"Dineshkumar Jayapalan, Puja Bathala","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05557-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05557-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143994326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Balanced Salt Solutions for Maintenance Intravenous Fluids: Clinical Advantage or Costly Affair?","authors":"Lalit Takia, Rakesh Lodha","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05563-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05563-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143997994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Situational Analysis and an Untapped Opportunity for Tackling Challenges Associated with Coverage of Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment: A Multi-Centric Study in India? Correspondence.","authors":"Rui Ye, Wei Zhou, Yibo He","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05573-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05573-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144063534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray Analysis in a Cohort of 300 Indian Patients.","authors":"Meena Bajaj Lall, Anju Joshi, Shruti Agarwal, Pushpa Saviour, Preeti Paliwal, Sunita Bijarnia Mahay, Ratna Dua Puri, Ishwar Chander Verma","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05519-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05519-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To present authors' experience of chromosome microarray analysis (CMA) as the first-tier test, which contributed to accumulation and annotation of copy number variations (CNVs) and discovery of novel genetic hot spots in Indian pediatric patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Karyotyping and CMA (4X180K Agilent) were performed in 300 patients with developmental delay, dysmorphism, autism, intellectual disability or congenital malformations. Various databases such as ClinVar, Clin Gen, OMIM, DECIPHER, etc. were used for interpretation of the results.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The diagnostic yield of clinically significant findings by CMA [16.00% (48/300)] was 9.0% higher than that by karyotyping [7.0% (21/300)]. There were 2.66% (08/300) patients with variations of uncertain significance (VOUS) which were challenging to interpret. Benign variations were considered normal.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CMA allows increased diagnostic yield of known and new microdeletion/duplication syndromes and molecular characterization of marker chromosomes with gene annotations. There is insufficient data published from India. Every such test done on Indian patients contributes to Indian data accumulation of pathogenic CNVs (pCNVs) and VOUS for future resolution. The benefit of CMA as a first-tier test is that it can improve the understanding towards the associated known and new genetic hot spots, thus providing a better genotype-phenotype correlation. Pre-test and post-test genetic counseling is important.</p>","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144002751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vitamin D Supplementation and Glycemic Control in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Double Blinded Randomized Controlled Study - Correspondence.","authors":"Mohit Kumar, Devi Dayal","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05564-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05564-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143981930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary Hypothyroidism Masquerading as a Pituitary Macroadenoma.","authors":"Reetha G, Muhsina K, Mohammed Mtp","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05558-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05558-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143998748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unravelling the Gut-Tumor Axis in Neuroblastoma: Promising Leads and Cautionary Gaps.","authors":"Shubham Sahni, Sameer Bakhshi","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05556-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05556-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143963240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abhishek Abhinay, Aditi Agarwal, Sweta Sharma, Ankur Singh, Rajniti Prasad, T B Singh
{"title":"Clinico-Epidemiological Profile and Outcomes of Pediatric Empyema Thoracis in North India.","authors":"Abhishek Abhinay, Aditi Agarwal, Sweta Sharma, Ankur Singh, Rajniti Prasad, T B Singh","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05559-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05559-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143970161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unmasking Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency in a Neonate with Brain Abscess.","authors":"Anurupa Popuri, Nikhil Rajvanshi, Nagaraja Venigalla","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05560-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05560-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143965386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developmental Surveillance and Anticipatory Guidance for Working Parents in Supporting Child Development.","authors":"Samuel P Oommen, Nitin Srinivasan","doi":"10.1007/s12098-025-05534-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-025-05534-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early childhood development shapes lifelong learning and skill development. This paper elucidates developmental surveillance and screening in pediatric care, particularly within the Indian context. Developmental surveillance monitors a child's progress during routine visits using age-appropriate milestone checklists, while developmental screening uses standardized tools at key stages to detect delays early, complementing ongoing surveillance efforts.Various screening tools have been examined, along with the challenges of selecting culturally appropriate instruments, especially in resource-limited settings. The role of Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) as a structured approach to screening and early intervention that provides comprehensive child health services is highlighted. The importance of anticipatory guidance, which equips parents with the knowledge and strategies to handle childhood challenges before they occur, is emphasized.Working parents face challenges in creating stimulating home environments that support their children's development. Despite time constraints, maximizing quality interactions, choosing appropriate toys, managing screen time, incorporating learning into daily routines, and promoting shared reading can all foster development. Success lies in warm, consistent interactions and transforming daily moments into learning opportunities, rather than relying on expensive resources. Healthcare providers play a vital role in guiding parents with advice and strategies to enhance child development effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":13320,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143984929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}